Tweet Tuesday was the big day. After months of planning, PolicyBEST was launched at a 10:30am press conference. The organization’s goal – of which I am the Executive Director – is to facilitate substantive policy discussion in areas where Georgia has specific needs but governance has gotten sidetracked.

Tweet Six Months can be a lifetime in politics. At the end of July, the most talked about political topic was transportation, and how Georgia would pay for it. Many state legislators, feeling the heat for the Frankenstein-like transportation funding mechanism that they put before the people, ran away from their own “solution”, insisting they [...]

Tweet George H. W. Bush was at one point rated among the most popular presidents ever. Just two years later he was defeated by a relatively unknown Governor of from a small state who was mired in scandal throughout his campaign. Bush was criticized during his campaign for lacking in big picture efforts, and admitted [...]

Tweet Hello, I’m #NVR and I am a Kattalistt. I am a member of a local organization acting under the title “The Kattalistt Group”. You may have crossed our logo before, you may have crossed other media that we produced, we have been busy trying to show you who we are. And now we want [...]

Tweet By Valerie Benton Meredyth Drive has been reopened to through traffic after temporary roadwork at Meredyth Drive experienced storm damage this weekend . Meredyth Drive was closed to through traffic until the damage could be repaired on Sunday, according to John Fischer, senior vice president of Facilities and Construction at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital. Construction crews will be continuing roadwork and if there [...]